Ladies, have you tried this? What were the results?
Hahahahahaha!
No.
I bet that weirdo shaves her arms, too.
Well, when I was a young man-you can’t believe how painful it is to say that- French ladies didn’t shave their armpits, and women nowhere shaved their pubes. Maybe this is the next big thing.
Yup. Hate the peach fuzz that showed up out of the blue in my early 40s. The razor is the easiest way to remove it.
It’s blonde peach fuzz, but it’s still annoying. It also makes your makeup look like shit.
Well, that’s what I was thinking. Women pluck or laser facial hair,but shave their armpits, legs, and increasingly their pubes. Why not shave the face? Seems to make sense. What is the downside?
As my wife has gotten older, she has more hair and asks me to trim it with a scissors. It leaves stubble and I began to wonder why not just shave. I had never heard of such a thing, I guess it is really hush hush for some reason. Going online, I find it is not so outrageous as i thought and decided to run it up the flagpole at the SD and see who salutes.
If you recall puberty, there’s plenty of nicks and razor burn that can occur until you get used to shaving your face. Your face does tend to have somewhat more sensitive skin that other parts and can’t be covered with clothing like armpits or the pubic region.
[QUOTE=SeaDragonTattoo;17955504I bet that weirdo shaves her arms, too.[/QUOTE]
Why is that weird? I don’t shave mine, but I do wax them, whenever I wax my legs.
Ya, but the women in the YouTube videos who who are doing this thing don’t seem to have problems with nicks and caution against using a man’s razor and to use the “Tinkle” which is usually used for triming eyebrows. You can see them on Ebay.
The only hair I remove is armpit hair, but I would guess that women prefer to wax or chemically remove facial hair because it goes away more smoothly and takes longer to grow back from waxing.
I guess I’m the only woman that takes a razor to facial hair? I have a mustache and neck hairs (shuddup) that I have to keep at bay. I’ve never had a problem with nicks and razor burn.
Women’s’ facial hair tends to be much finer than men’s, so razor burn and nicks are unlikely. You only need to go over once, unless you have an actual beard (in which case, see the doctor).
But if that’s a worry, try one of the wire-wrapped razors (Shick Quattro, I think). Prevents nicks. Or one of the electric groomer thingies.
No, you’re not.
(Stupid ethnic heritage - I swear, at some point my ancestors consorted with bears or something…)
I pluck my facial hairs. I don’t have very many of them, and I’d feel silly shaving to cut off a couple of dozen hairs. Especially since I’d have to do it every day or two. A plucked hair takes a long time to grow back, and never looks like stubble.
If I had a lot of facial hair, I’d shave it, though. Or get someone to remove it permanently with a laser or electrolysis or something.
I wax my brows/upper lip. It doesn’t get stubbly when it grows back, then?
Ok I’ll bite. I use the Tinkle shavers, and was inspired by the very video posted here.
I have my brows and mustache waxed every 2 weeks - I have a regular place I go to. I go that often because I hate having to pluck my own brows, hate it enough that I’d rather pay someone else to do it for me.
But the shaving (also known as dermaplaning) is what I do for my neck, chin, jaw, sideburns etc.
I naturally have a slight mustache, strong brows, and more sideburns/jaw hair than I’d really like, and chin hair that is growing as I get older…and having spent 30 of my 40 years feeling self-conscious about my mustache, I like the feel of having all the peach-fuzz hair on my whole face gone. Plus it actually does exfoliate nicely and my face looks fresher after I’m done dermaplaning. I have tried doing my brows and mustache but went back to waxing because it lasts longer and to shave your eyebrows you have to have a steady hand and no fear.
I keep a Tinkle in the medicine cabinet over the sink, and just give my face a going over every few days. It is easy and fast and doesn’t take any longer than brushing my teeth. I do get stubble, no way around it, but its soft and not at all visible and keeping on top of it every 2 or 3 days keeps it to a minimum.
Makeup certainly goes on nicer and more smoothly, and I feel like I look better without makeup as well. I feel, dare I say it, almost glowy.
My overall feeling is that I wish I had known about this option for hair removal when I was 19 because I would have been doing it for decades instead of just a year or so. Its that great for me.
When I was modeling I used to remove all the hair on my face with a cream depilatory. Then I discovered how cheap Magic Shave is, and that I could mix it myself to be gentler than the complete preparations.
Removing all the tiny peach fuzz hairs makes a surprising difference, and I’ll still do it on the very rare occasions that I plan to apply full make-up. It also has the effect of being an excellent exfoliant. As I get older, I can’t use it as often for that reason. My skin just can’t take the beating. Fortunately, there are also fewer occasions when my appearance is all that important.
OMG I just watched the video. “Your man is secretly pissed off that you have a mustache.”
Is that true? In my experience, men really do not give a rip about that stuff.
I use an epilator - what a dream. I used to be shaving every day and missing some of the cat whiskers on my cheeks. This epilator thing has changed my life!
I give my face a going over every two or three days now. There’s no longer stubble per se, the fresh growth has fine tips. Yipeee!
Well, if you have the sort of mustache visible from 20 feet and that might be waxed into an elaborate style, yeah, most of them seem a little put off by that but the peach-fuzz to slightly more some of us have they don’t seem to care much about.
Waxers - doesn’t that friggin HURT?
When I was younger there was a lot of push for women to bleach that “unwanted facial hair”. Well, great - now I have a white proto-goatee, I’m sure no one will notice that!
My skin is hypersensitive to a lot of stuff. In fact, the ability of my skin to freak out is somewhat legendary around here so I’m leery of using chemicals on my face. The thickest, nastiest hair on my chin is still not as thick and tough as a man’s whisker, so it’s nothing to swipe it off with a blade. For me, a quick swipe with a razor every couple days takes care of the problem without causing my skin to go into fits. YMMV, of course, do whatever works for you.
Oh, and when did we start waxing/shaving/threading/whatever eyebrows? I though the plucking thing was bad. Who are all these people with wild, out of control eyebrows? Frankly, I like thick and somewhat bold brows.
Well, I’ve never trimmed my eyebrows. But I know a woman in her late 80s who complained that she plucked her eyebrows so much when she was younger that they don’t grow in any more, and now she wishes she had more eyebrow. So I don’t think grooming them is a brand new idea.